Now this is the kind of post that needs to start with exclamation marks! Because it’s summer and the berries are BACK! And there is nothing so refreshing as lemonade, on ice, on the deck, on a hot summer evening – especially if you are school-aged and the lemonade in question is pink! YEAH!! I think I need
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July 8, 2012
Tayberry Lemonade!
May 2, 2011
Green Birthday Parties
My oldest son turns the big one-o today. Double digits already! Why did I not realize this would happen so quickly? I actually feel slightly ridiculous – I was warned many, many, many times that childhood goes by just exactly this quickly. Every new parent has heard this, or variations of it: “Enjoy it – it goes by
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October 31, 2010
Hallowe’en Fun Food
“The raspberry can be blood… and the gooseberry can be guts… Right, Mom?” this, out of the mouth of my six-year-old son this morning as we were setting out different jams for Hallowe’en pancake breakfast. “Right,” I answered. “And the apricot can be… can be… brains spilling out!” “Awesome!” I said in my best Enthusiastic Mommy voice.
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February 6, 2010
Spider Cake
I do think birthday parties should be all about the food, and especially all about homemade cake. But, much to my children’s disappointment, I draw the line at shaped cakes. But my resolve was broken this year when I agreed to make my youngest son a spider-shaped cake for his 5th birthday.
